Crisis at NBC News: Steve Schmidt

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https://steveschmidt.substack.com/p/crisis-at-nbc-news

'Soon, every detail around what happened inside the executive suites at NBC/MSNBC around the hiring, backlash and disappearance of Ronna McDaniel from MSNBC before she could tell her first lie, will be known...Agents, anchors and reporters will work their iPhones, texting and spinning their version of the moment they found out credibility didn’t matter to the executives.

There comes a moment when something terrible is going to happen. It will shock our conscience and hearts. Perhaps it will terrify us, and maybe people will lie about the matter to seek advantage in a way that could hurt all of us. Maybe, just maybe, there will be an hour of grave danger during which a terrible menace bears down on democracy. Imagine a lawless president who tries to intimidate the media, or shut down a broadcast network. That could never ever happen in America, right? It is as crazy as a president triggering an insurrection, or inciting violence, or calling for a campaign of revenge. Nothing like that could ever happen because in the United States the news would tell us, right?..

Lester Holt matters in America, and so does Savannah Guthrie, because they have over many long years established the credibility necessary to lead global news coverage from a desk in New York City to tell the American people what is happening upon the occasion of the darkest hours. It is a great responsibility and a profound public trust. This is why the vapid, dishonest disgrace that dared say the following on Meet the Press as an NBC News employee, responding to why she stayed silent and indifferent as the chairwoman of the third oldest political party in the world when Trump promised to release scores of violent felons who staged a coup: When you are the RNC chair, sometimes you have to take one for the whole team, right?

McDaniel should never appear on television with a serious NBC journalist as a colleague...Yet, the mix of stupidity, cynicism and incompetence that led to the hiring, and Jones’ ability and agility to scramble away from it has left NBC News holding a giant steaming pile of, well…Heads will roll, as they say."

My words: I did my best to print the gems, but read the entire piece, folks. It's worth it. Note: Bold is mine.